Future Prospects
Abstract
This chapter provides information on the adaptability of renewable plastics and composites to environmental, economic and technical market requirements, and the capacity for innovation. Costs, laws and regulations, lack of competition with food, recycling, and sustainability are the main trends.
Taking into account the actual low volume of renewable plastics, their high AGR, the strong environmental wave, and the risks concerning crude oil availability at moderate costs, the price of emerging renewable plastics should catch levels of fossil plastics in a first step and then drop down to lower levels. Scenarios for price modeling of polymers come out of historical prices and crude oil price hypotheses.
Of course, a plausible ...
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